kleverVice
3 December 2004
http://klever.org
kleverVice runs the weekly Grounded at openair
.kleverVice sez:
i find it shocking how few of you have ever asked me what a kleverVice is. today is the day i tell you. kleverVice is a character in a story i wrote when i used to write stories which is what i did before i used to play records. she is one of three girl superheros, the other two being trixie sky rocket and stella by bar light. they have this mother maiden hag thing going on (i was in my early twenties at the height of west coast liberalism, cut me some slack). klever is the maiden. stella is the mother. trixie is the hag. klever is a young scientist. stella is a humble playwright. trixie is a post-artstar performance loooney. she wears pink hot pants and has sagging skin and secretly im in love with her most! there's this other character, lord skandal, a writer doomed with a vocabulary 100 years before his time, and his boss, the evil geriatrich who owns a pharmeceutical company. there are several stories that explain how all these people met, though it culminates in something i never finished.
this.
the setting is the eve of the millenium (as i said, this was long ago) and there is a bi-coastal party to celebrate our arrival to yet another christian marker. klever has invented some sort of contraption which takes all the people from the west coast and sends them east (and vice versa) -- and sort of like "the fly" -- it fucks up. people get mangled, or just plain lost in space. understandably many people are quite upset with klever, while others (like geriatrich) are hot on her tail so they can use her invention for evil.
so it goes. fairytales.
klever, trixie, and stella wake up in a hotel in manhattan (long before i ever visited) seemingly unharmed. klever is appropriately anxious and of course they have to flee, get back to san francisco, and destroy the plans for the machine before geriatrich catches them. on their way west, narrowly escaping death repeatedly, they start to realize they share commen memories... not just of time spent together, but of private moments. interesting. and by the time they reach new orleans they've discovered they are actually the same person... and all the memories of the things they had done together previously (as well as all of the other stories about them) are just splices of other people and other times, fiction, mixed up in the silly party people transposer.
this brings out a nice idea: a few actually, but you know, half the fun of reading is deciding yerself, so i'll shut up.
anyway.... on their way back they then have to decide if they want to stay "three" people or go back to being one person. we've all been there, i hope.
how this relates to music and specifically DJing..... stella by bar light was my first DJ name. i took it to give myself 'moms confidence' in my first year of playing records (for people other than myself). after that i became kleverVice. louder. more experimental. probably more reckless, thankfully. trixie is reserved for high end performance... and you'll know when she is ready. cuz see trixie doesn't give a shit about anyone or anything except her own pleasure. she is a hag. she will break your heart, and love you infinitely if you are wise enough to realize it.
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